1. Business Quotes 2010.11

2. “Just how do I design if not
with prototyping?
An excellent question.
The short answer is
on paper.”
Alan Cooper
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4. “The most important thing
in communication
is to hear
what isn't being said.”
Peter Drucker
Image credit: flickr.com/alinetavernier/3848709104 >

6. “We are
currently
not planning
on conquering the world.”
Sergey Brin
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8. “Basically, our goal is to
organize the world's
information
and to make it universally
accessible and useful.”
Larry Page in Businessweek, March 13, 2001
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10. “If I hold you any closer,
I'll be in back of you.”
Groucho Marx as Dr. Hackenbush
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12. “Nine women can't have a
baby in one month,
no matter how closely they
coordinate their work.”
Seth Godin A saying that has been around since the ice age
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14. “Opportunity is missed by
most because it comes
dressed in overalls and looks
like work.”
Thomas Edison
Image credit: flickr.com/osucommons/3724236532 >

16. “IT is not comparable to a
fully sequential engineering
system in which deliverables
result from planning,
designing, building, testing,
reworking, retesting, and
finalizing.”
Mark D. Lutchen, Former Global CIO of PWC
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18. “Do not believe that it is very
much of an advance
to do the unnecessary
three times as fast.”
Peter Drucker
Image credit: flickr.com/mini82/1198278806 >

20. “One has to do something
new
in order to see something
new.”
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Image credit: flickr.com/giorgiotomassetti/4790262687 >

22. “Institutions will try to
preserve the problem
to which they are the
solution.”
Clay Shirky
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24. “A line is a dot
that went for a walk.”
Paul Klee
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26. “The term ‘social networking’
makes little sense if we leave
out the objects that mediate
the ties between people. [...]
The fallacy is to think that
social networks are just made
up of people.”
Jyri Engeström
Image credit: flickr.com/lwallenstein/3867427676 >

28. “Innovation is not about
saying yes to everything.
It’s about saying NO to all but
the most crucial features.”
Steve Jobs
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30. “The long silence — the
interruption of the human
conversation — is coming to
an end. On the Internet,
markets are getting more
connected and more
powerfully vocal every day.”
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Image credit: flickr.com/mogmismo/3564024948 >

32. “Rather be dead than cool.”
Kurt Cobain
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34. “These are issues that we are
going to have to address,
because they are significant.”
Ben Bernanke
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36. “One finds limits
by pushing them.”
Herbert Simon
Image credit: flickr.com/kevinwhite/225709357 >

38. “If we wait for the moment
when everything,
absolutely everything is ready,
we shall never begin.”
Ivan Turgenev
Image credit: flickr.com/miikka_skaffari/3228249024 >

40. “I spent 90% of my money on
women and drink.
The rest I wasted”
George Best
Image credit: flickr.com/phinz/3695488807 >

42. “[...] a wealth of information
creates a poverty of attention,
and a need to allocate that
attention efficiently among
the overabundance of
information sources
that might consume it.”
Herbert Simon
Image credit: flickr.com/aasgier/2414686179 >

44. “Eighty percent of success is
showing up.”
Woody Allen
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46. “Complexity that works is
built up out of
modules that work perfectly,
layered one over the other.”
Kevin Kelly
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3646390382 >

48. “A child of five would
understand this.
Send someone to fetch a
child of five.”
Groucho Marx
Image credit: flickr.com/kenyee/2817511001 >

50. “I apologize for writing you a
long letter
but I didn’t have time to
write you a short one.”
Blaise Pascal
Image credit: flickr.com/kevint/7854090 >

52. “Fail early
to succeed sooner.”
Matt Hunter, Product Development, IDEO
Image credit: flickr.com/antonkovalyov/3605921613 >

54. “Implement solutions,
not features.”
John Geleynse, Software Technology Evangelism, Apple
Image credit: flickr.com/bgwilson89/2253180349 >

56. “Don't open a shop
unless
you like to smile.”
Chinese Proverb
Image credit: flickr.com/ucumari/696344991 >

58. “The best ideas
come as jokes.
Make your thinking
as funny as possible.”
David Ogilvy
Image credit: flickr.com/nationaalarchief/4193508328 >

60. “Before I speak,
I have something
important to say.”
Groucho Marx
Image credit: flickr.com/rickharris/3241285917 >

62. “Prediction is very difficult,
especially about the future.”
Niels Bohr
Image credit: flickr.com/quasimondo/98423379 >

64. “If I’d asked my customers
what they wanted,
they’d have said
a faster horse.”
Henry Ford
Image credit: flickr.com/haraldfelgner/3644756242 >

66. “Content precedes design.
Design in the absence of
content is not design,
it’s decoration.”
Jeffrey Zeldman
Image credit: flickr.com/wongjunhao/22677518115 >

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